| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP3570
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| DP3570 Input Price Discrimination with Downstream Cournot Competitors |
| Tommaso Valletti
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| 发表日期 | 2002-10-20
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| 出版年 | 2002
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Countries that have pursued distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered more macroeconomic volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect the causal effect of these macroeconomic policies on economic outcomes? One reason to suspect that the answer may be no is that countries pursuing poor macro-economic policies also have weak ?institutions?, including political institutions that do not constrain politicians and political elites, ineffective enforcement of property rights for investors, widespread corruption, and a high degree of political instability. This Paper documents that those countries that inherited more ?extractive? institutions from their colonial past were more likely to experience high volatility and economic crises during the postwar period. More specifically, societies where European colonists faced high mortality rates more than 100 years ago are much more volatile and prone to crises. Based on our previous work, we interpret this relationship as due to the causal effect of institutions on economic outcomes: Europeans did not settle and were more likely to set up extractive institutions in areas where they faced high mortality. Once we control for the effect of institutions, macroeconomic policies appear to have only a minor impact on volatility and crises. This suggests that distortionary macroeconomic policies are more likely to be symptoms of underlying institutional problems rather than the main causes of economic volatility, and also that the effects of institutional differences on volatility do not appear to be primarily mediated by any of the standard macroeconomic variables. Instead, it appears that weak institutions cause volatility through a number of microeconomic, as well as macroeconomic, channels. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Crises
Economic growth
Economic instability
Exchange rates
Government spending
inflation
Institutions
Macroeconomic policies
Volatility
Washington consensus
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp3570
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/532577
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Tommaso Valletti. DP3570 Input Price Discrimination with Downstream Cournot Competitors. 2002.
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